WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Childhood lead exposure may trigger the development of long-term mental health problems, new research suggests. The finding stems from a decades-long tracking of nearly 600 New Zealanders. All were born between 1972 and 1973. At that time, most gas products still contained high levels of lead. Lead exposure… Read More »
Kane Ransom’s Christmas wish is simple this year — he wants to be cancer-free so his family can go on holidays. The seven-year-old, who is 40 weeks into 118 weeks of chemotherapy for his second bout of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), has reason to be hopeful. A major breakthrough by researchers in Sydney has opened… Read More »
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